Step 16: EL Wire! Red of course

Step 17: Enjoy your Daft Punk Guy Manuel Helmet!

I am planning on wearing this around school on monday, on halloween as well and just anywhere really! Haha! Thank you guys for sitting through this in...

So, since my last build of Isaac Clarke, there has been a passion growing in me for making props, therefore I decided to tackle a project of higher magnitude and so I chose to do Guy Manuel's helmet from Daft Punk, so I will stop blabbing on now and begin with the procedure.. So let's do this! Haha.

Thats a fabulous job you did. I was wondering if you could tell me how much smooth on 25 did it require to create the silicone mold. And how much smooth on did it require to make 1 finished mask. Is 16 oz enough to make one mask? Thanks

I have sold 3 raw castings already. These have been exactly sold as seen in step 12. The card stock model is just the helmet blueprints printed out on cardstock, then put together along with more paper to create what appears in step 2.I'm so sorry if it doesn't make sense, I'll be glad to explain in further detail if you'd like me to.

I understand your confusion, and I apologize for my lack of ability to explain things in detail.Okay here it goes, I made some blueprints for the helmet and printed them out in 1:1 scale to my head, this included a front plane of the helmet blueprint, 2 side shots and a rear shot.

These pieces were then traced onto a big cardstock (cardboard), they were then cut out and kind of put together to make an "X" so I could have the actual size of the helmet and see what is was going to look like.

Since you are just going to have a "X" and "Y" plane of the helmet (Aerial view) you want to fill in the "Z" plane which will turn the piece from a 2D figure to a 3D figure, so you link the gaps of the "X" plane and "Y" with either paper of more cardboard.

By this moment, you should have something that looks like the one in the picture.

Then you want to spray foam around the whole piece so you could later carve the piece until you get your desired shape.

If you still don't understand, let me know, I'll be more than glad to make an example step by step video or addition to this instructable : )

hey man, can you shoot me an email, im wodering if you would be willing to make me one or two of those white casts, and how much you would charge for them :D im looking to make 2 more helmets and i dont have the time to do all the other steps again, already have a basic one, i want to try to make a tron one and a steampunk one :D but i wanna start with an actual base this time to save time, get back to me with the answer asap please and thank you :D email is trent_ingram2007@yahoo.com just set the subject as Guy Manuel Helmet or something like that.

Hey, I know I'm a little late to the party but if you are still answering questions I would love to ask you a few things as I am trying to build one of these now.

1. After you apply the bondo to the expanding foam model, are you hollowing out the expanding foam so you can put the thing on your head? I am trying to follow volpin as well as you but neither of you really mention this.

2. Can I immediately bondo the expanding foam or is there an in between step? Volpin mentions urethane resin but your's seemed to turn out ok.

If you could answer any or all of these I would be super grateful thanks so much. Great build.

hey this is truly beautiful .. i know you probly get asked alot and what not but is there anyway i could get a mold man like i have no money right now to make a mold .. so plz email me at wyattmedley@yahoo.com it would mean a crzy amount to me because this is an on going thing i dream of making ... idk but anyway i could get help other than this would be amazing ..